If all ages are influenced by misinformation, should there be any age limits on voting?

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Limits on Voting Age

If all ages are influenced by misinformation, then yes I do think that there should be limits on voting age. I said this because, people under the age of 18 are almost always on their phones so they would probobly be looking at the latest things and if they seeother people voting of coures there going to start looking into it. But the thing is, kids always like to take tge easy route to succes and I know because well im a kid too. But when a 16 year old takes the shortcut when it comes to voting, it can cause some serious problems. For one, it can cause online problems towards people who disagree with the 16 year old.

For example, a 16 year old decides that he wants to vote and so he looks into it on youtube. After watching a video he decides to comment on the video about his perspective about the canidate about how he looks and talks without judging his personality traits. And the 16 year old may type fast without reading over his work and mispell some words, write run-on sentences, and might not add punctuation. This may lead to an older person thinking that the boy is older than his real age and may comment that they can't spell or write a complete sentence properly and the 16 year old may be offended by the comments so he might report the commenter or even ask their parents to sue the commenter. And this would be because some 16 year old kids havent fully developed into adult hood and may still be a little bit sensitive ar insicure towards what other people say because the person who commented might have been joking but the 16 year old took it seriously.

Another problem is that some 16 year olds still don't understand cosiquences. For example a 16 year girl decides that she wants to vote so she looks into it. And then she finds a canidate that looks nice and all suited up, and so the girl decides to vote for the canidate just because of whats on the outside. On the Election date the canidate that the girl votes for wins but a few years after the election things change around the country and nothing is the same anymore and so the country had became a violent place. And this is prbobly what would happen if there were no limits on voting and 16 year olds kept getting influenced by misinformation.

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